Welcome to Bird and Bear Editorial Services, your closed-door book editor.

(Specializing in ROMANCE, fantasy, young adult, and suspense/thrillers.)

Get ready to take your book to the next level.

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Our Services

  • Line/Copyediting

    Combined service. Copyediting for errors in punctuation, spelling, grammar, redundancy, and consistency, in addition to light fact-checking and rewriting at the sentence level.

    *Per word pricing for more than 20k words

  • Proofreading

    Last line of defense before publishing. Checking for anything the copy editor may have missed and scanning for typos.

    *Per word pricing for more than 20k words

  • Shorter Work Editing

    Short works get the line/copyediting combo service by default.

    *For works under 20k words

  • Copyediting

    Correcting errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, continuity, and redundancy.

    *Per word pricing for more than 20k words

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Let me catch the simple mistakes so you can focus on the important stuff…like storytelling.

—owner and editor, Holly Black

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